On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:10:10PM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> John Meacham wrote:
> >I would think this would be how the haskell 98 standard library CPUTime
> >is implemented, is it not?
>> No. System.CPUTime gives you an approximate idea of the amount of CPU
> time your process, and all its threads, have used. The rdtsc
> instruction gives you a snapshot of the current CPU's cycle counter,
> regardless of who (if anyone) has been burning those cycles.
ah, of course. I made the same mistake before. carry on. :)
the linux kernel source has readtsc equivalants for a bunch of different
architectures, a simple CPP switch would allow support for most
everything.
John
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